The Frogs and the Fighting Bulls

09. THE FROGS AND THE FIGHTING BULLS. A FROG in his marsh, looking at some Bulls fighting, exclaimed, "O dear, what sad destruction threatens us now!" Another Frog asked him why he said that, seeing that the Bulls were only fighting for the first place in the herd and that they lived quite remote from the Frogs. "Ah," said the first, "it is true that our positions are wide apart and we are different kinds of things, but still the Bull who will be driven from the rule of the pasture will come to lie in hiding in the marsh and crush us to death under his hard hoofs, so that their raging really does closely concern the lives of you and me." [more info]